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Updated On: May 03, 2008 (12:39:00)
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"We are all organizers."
This is the principle on which our Brotherhood will enter into and grow in the 21st century. Every Local Council, District, and International staff member, regardless of position, must be an organizer in spirit and action. Every member must be an organizer too. Our union and the future of our crafts are in our hands to build strong and proud. We will build them by organizing all who share our trade, pride, and skill that come with being a unionist. Organizing is not a job that comes naturally. We all need to learn the basic skills to be organizers. Those skills are rooted in interpersonal communication skills: contacting workers; listening to worker needs; persuading workers that they have rights to dignity, safety, and a good wage; and supporting workers as they develop the confidence to stand up together to demand fair standards of work and wages from their employers. What We Stand For
Since 1881 Our Objectives Are:
• To organize all construction workers so they can have a unified voice in the workplace.
• To encourage training programs for a higher standard of skill, productivity, and quality the job.
• To develop, improve, and enforce safe/clean working conditions.
• To cultivate friendship among workers and help improve our communities.
• To assist each other to secure employment.
• To reduce the hours of daily labor, so we can rest on the week-end.
• To secure adequate pay for our labor and establish a weekly payday.
• To promote fringe benefits containing family healthcare coverage and pension for retirement.
• To take wages out of the competition for jobs, so they are not based on who will work for less.
• To elevate moral, intellectual, and social conditions for all construction workers.
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